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Auction: 5033 - The Colin Adams Collection of Halfcrowns
Lot: 36

Edward VI, third period, Halfcrown, 22.71g., 1551, trial struck in lead from official dies, king crowned and in armour on horseback walking right, plume on horse´s head, reads AGL FRA Z HIB, rev. long cross fourchée over shield, m.m. y (cf. N.1934; S.2479) small edge knock at 12 o´clock, lightly double struck on obverse, otherwise on a neat round slightly convex flan, very fine, very rare Estimate £ 500-600PROVENANCE: Dix and Webb, Auction 23, 29 May 1996, lot 75 The flan of this piece has been carefully prepared, it is slightly thicker than normal and nearly 50% overweight, and the coin gives every indication of being a contemporary striking in lead. There is a currency Halfcrown struck from the same reverse die, but a different obverse die, in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Knight 646). The purpose of a lead striking remains uncertain.

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